For its fourth stop, the exhibition ECAL A Typographic Atlas is presented in New York by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.
Presented as a typographic atlas, this traveling exhibition features a selection of 300 typefaces created by ECAL's Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design students. The exhibition is structured around a single indexing approach, a system translated into a modular display designed by Adrien Rovero. Alphabetical entries and numerical coordinates form a navigational framework, inviting visitors to move through a typographic territory.
Typography is treated as a visual, cultural and linguistic practice, from experimental forms to functional families and multiscript projects, encouraging us to reconsider how type mediates everyday communication.
The project also takes the form of book of the same name, produced by Giliane Cachin and Eurostandard and published by Empire Books, which unfolds like a vast map covering the full range of genres across the contemporary typographic spectrum.
The showing of this exhibition at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science is part of the 12th edition of the Typographics Festival, an annual event series focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie. The opening will be accompanied by a talk by four graphic and type designers from ECAL's staff and alumni. It will introduce the audience to the mixed practices of graphic and type design through the diploma projects of three graduates and the evolution of their practice, bridging the skills of font production with the broader perspectives of art directors and graphic designers.
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22.06.2026
5:00pm-9:00pm
Talk in-person & livestreamed, 6:30pm
The Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union
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In the presence of:
Angelo Benedetto , Head of ECAL Bachelor Graphic Design
Rebekka Hausmann , type & graphic designer, alumna and assistant of ECAL Master Type Design
Sean Kuhnke , type & graphic designer, ECAL Master Type Design alumni
Nayoung Kim , type & graphic designer, ECAL Master Type Design alumni
23.06–02.08.2026
Closed on July 3 & 4
Free admission
Monday to Friday: 12:00–7:30pm
Saturday: 12:00–5:30pm
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
41 Cooper Square, New York, United States
EXHIBITIONS
Curated by Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design programmes, this project presents a wide selection of 300 typefaces created by ECAL students from around the world.
EXHIBITIONS
Conceived as a travelling exhibition, ECAL A Typographic Atlas reflects ECAL’s long-standing commitment to contemporary graphic and type design.
EXHIBITIONS
As part of the presentation of ECAL A Typographic Atlas at Program/me, the launch of the exhibition's book, as well as a conference with typographers, teachers, researchers, and publishers, will also take place.